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SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2000 Election (ICPSR 3356)

Principal Investigator(s):
Prysby, Charles;
Scavo, Carmine

Summary:

This Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political
Science (SETUPS) module is designed as an introduction to the study of
elections, voting behavior, and survey data through the analysis of
the 2000 United States general election. The data are taken from the
AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 2000: PRE- AND POST-ELECTION SURVEY
(ICPSR 3131), conducted by Nancy Burns, Donald R. Kinder, Steven J.
Rosenstone, Virginia Sapiro, and the National Election Studies. A
subset of items was drawn from the full election survey, including
questions on voting behavior, political involvement, media
involvement, candidate images, presidential approval and government
performance, economic conditions, ideology, general spending and
taxation, social welfare policy, foreign policy and defense issues,
social and other domestic issues, civil rights and equality, and
general orientations toward government. A number of social and
demographic characteristics such as gender, race, age, marital status,
education, occupation, income, religious affiliation, region, and
employment status are also included.

This Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political
Science (SETUPS) module is designed as an introduction to the study of
elections, voting behavior, and survey data through the analysis of
the 2000 United States general election. The data are taken from the
AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 2000: PRE- AND POST-ELECTION SURVEY
(ICPSR 3131), conducted by Nancy Burns, Donald R. Kinder, Steven J.
Rosenstone, Virginia Sapiro, and the National Election Studies. A
subset of items was drawn from the full election survey, including
questions on voting behavior, political involvement, media
involvement, candidate images, presidential approval and government
performance, economic conditions, ideology, general spending and
taxation, social welfare policy, foreign policy and defense issues,
social and other domestic issues, civil rights and equality, and
general orientations toward government. A number of social and
demographic characteristics such as gender, race, age, marital status,
education, occupation, income, religious affiliation, region, and
employment status are also included.

Universe:
All United States citizens of voting age on or before
Election Day (November 6, 2000), residing in housing units other than
on military reservations in the 48 coterminous states.

Data Type(s):
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) The data for this instructional subset are
distributed by ICPSR through an arrangement with the American
Political Science Association (APSA). Manuals for use with the data
are available from the APSA Division of Educational Affairs. (2) The
codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF)
file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated
and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe
Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat
Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Methodology

Sample:
National multistage area probability sample.

Data Source:

personal and telephone interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: